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Emily Harris was born on 11 February, 1947 in Baltimore, Maryland, is a SLA member (born 1947). Discover Emily Harris's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 77 years old?

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Age 77 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 11 February 1947
Birthday 11 February
Birthplace Baltimore, Maryland
Nationality United States

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1947

Emily Harris (born February 11, 1947, as Emily Montague Schwartz) was, along with her husband William Harris (1945–), a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), an American left-wing terrorist group involved in murder, kidnapping, and bank robberies.

1970

In the 1970s, she was convicted of kidnapping Patty Hearst.

1973

They moved to Berkeley, California, in 1973, traveling with friends Gary Atwood and Angela Atwood.

They soon joined a left-wing group organized through the university in Berkeley that, among other things, visited inmates in prisons in northern California to tutor them and prepare them for life outside.

Late that year the Harrises met an escaped prisoner, Donald DeFreeze, who was staying with white leftist activists in Berkeley.

He and Patricia Soltysik, a white woman also called Mizmoon, co-founded what became the Symbionese Liberation Army, a leftist group that promoted joining all the progressive causes.

Other founding members were Nancy Ling Perry, Joe Remiro, Russ Little, Willie Wolfe, Angela Atwood, Thero Wheeler, and Camilla Hall.

Rejecting the group's plans for armed confrontations, Wheeler left in the fall.

DeFreeze was the only remaining Black member.

Remiro was Latino; all the others were white.

The Harrises, also white, joined the group.

Emily Harris and the others took noms de guerre as SLA soldiers: hers was 'Yolanda'.

On November 6, the SLA committed its first public act, the assassination of Marcus Foster, Oakland, California, school superintendent and the first black superintendent of any major public school system.

SLA activists mistakenly thought Foster had approved a plan to require student identification cards for Oakland high schools, which they denounced as fascist, thinking they could recruit followers by their action.

But Foster was popular in the black community, and people were outraged at his murder.

1974

In February 1974 SLA members kidnapped Patty Hearst, a college student and one of the heirs to the Hearst newspaper empire.

This action attracted much more media attention, as did the group's demands that Hearst's family provide compensation to the poor in California as a kind of ransom.

Emily and Bill Harris and Hearst, who had joined the SLA, were involved in other activities on May 17, 1974, when six core SLA members were confronted at their safe house in South Central Los Angeles.

In the shootout with police that followed and a subsequent house fire, all six were killed, including erstwhile leader DeFreeze.

Emily and Bill Harris claimed the leadership of the SLA, and fled the city with Hearst.

They spent more than a year eluding the authorities with Hearst, including some time in hiding on the East Coast.

After their return to California, they acquired new members Wendy Yoshimura, a California radical who had assisted the trio in the East, and several Soliah family members and relations: Kathleen Soliah and her boyfriend Jim Kilgore, her sister Josephine and her husband Mike Bortin, and their brother Steven Soliah.

Hearst had become a participant in SLA crimes.

Yoshimura, Patty's closest friend while underground, was a fugitive because explosives had been stored in a garage she rented.

1975

During that year on the run the SLA committed a string of crimes, including an April 21, 1975, armed robbery of Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, California.

During the robbery, customer 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl, a mother of four, was fatally shot.

Opsahl was depositing a church collection at the time.

1982

Hearst stated in her autobiography Every Secret Thing (1982) that Emily Harris was the shooter.

Hearst wrote that Harris had said, "Oh, she's dead, but it doesn't really matter. She was a bourgeois pig anyway. Her husband is a doctor."

Reportedly other SLA members had urged Harris against bringing the shotgun to the robbery, as it had accidentally discharged twice during preparations.

The Harrises were eventually arrested, convicted of their part in the Hearst kidnapping, and served eight years in prison.

They were represented by attorney Leonard Weinglass.

Imprisoned at the California Institution for Women in Corona, California, Emily Harris spent the first half of her term in solitary confinement.

Emily learned computer programming in prison.

1983

After her release from prison in 1983, Harris became a computer programmer.

2003

In 2003, she was convicted of murder in the second degree for being the shooter in a 1975 slaying that occurred while she and other SLA members were robbing a bank in California.

She was sentenced to eight years in prison for the murder.

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised in Clarendon Hills, Illinois, Emily Montague Schwartz was the daughter of Frederick Schwartz, an engineer, and his wife, and had a middle-class upbringing.

She graduated from Indiana University with a bachelor's degree in language arts.

She married William Harris, whom she had met at Indiana University in Bloomington.